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| | | Like many otakus do, I spend big part of my time in front of my PC and I have been using MS Windows for many years until I got Fedora Linux installed very recently, just about 2 weeks ago so I'm a beginner when it comes to Linux. Today's web log is not otaku-related but to share with you fellow readers and otakus who enjoy computing as much as watching anime or buying figurines about my first Fedora Linux hands-on.
| | | Above: My Fedora 10 Gnome desktop. |
What's Linux you might asked? The answer: Linux is an alternative Operating System (OS) that you could run on your computer instead of Microsoft Windows XP/Vista and the best part of Linux is that it's free. Linux comes in many distros (or variants) and my choice of distro is Fedora. Head to Wikipedia for more details about Linux.
History
The first time I used Linux (I'm guessing that it was Mandrake Linux, now known as Mandriva) was about 7 years ago and it was readily installed on a PC. Linux support for multiple Workspaces (or multiple "Desktops") interface really amazed me but I did not bother to install Linux on my Pentium III PC back then. My experience with Linux was minimal until I have Fedora 10 now.
Trying out Linux Fedora 10
The big news is that the latest Fedora 10 rolled out 3 days ago and one of the main reasons to pick it up is for better compatibiliy with your computer hardware if you're trying out Linux for the first time. Article.
Linux used to be complicated and not user-friendly but today I'd say installing Fedora 10 is a no-brainer. Fedora 10 can be run and tested out without any changes made to your existing Windows computer if you use the Live CD version. Simply burn the downloaded Live CD ISO to a CD-R and boot your PC from your CD/DVD drive (see your motherboard manual for booting with CD).
If you have a USB flash drive, I'd strongly suggest you to use the LiveUSB Creator to put Fedora onto your USB flash drive instead of a CD-R. Not only that you can save one piece CD-R and get much faster speed running Fedora via a USB flash drive, you can also save your Fedora settings and install additional programs if you enable Persistent Storage in LiveUSB Creator. With that, you can have a fully portable OS in your pocket.
My Fedora 10 Desktop
The newly installed Fedora 10 works as good as my previous Fedora 9. Fedora can be easily customised to resemble Microsoft Windows desktop with additional skins at GNOME Art if you are using Gnome interface. Since I'm using Fedora as a multimedia OS (despite the fact that Fedora is poor at multimedia natively) as well as a Linux learning platform, installing VLC Media Player is a must and it alone will suffice my multimedia needs.
As a Photoshop user, I find GIMP, the default image manipulation program for Fedora is weird. All the panels are floating on the desktop and if I have other windows opened, I will most likely smudge my image accidently. GIMP just have to sit on a seperate Workspace.
Firefox works perfectly but the fonts don't look quite good without some hacks. I have yet to figure out a way to make it looks as good as it is in Windows. Same goes to the fonts of Nautilus, the default file browser for Fedora as well as the system wide fonts. Disabling Cleartype (use of Monochrome) in Fedora doesn't quite meet up to my expectation.
| | | Above: Firefox and Nautilus File Browser on Fedora 10 |
Overall, I find Fedora 10 to be a user-friendly Linux distro and shall be sticking to it.
Other Linux Distros: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS
I have tried another Linux distro which was Ubuntu (8.04 LTS), arguably the most popular Linux distro today but it did not work well on my PC for some reasons. Other popular distros would be OpenSUSE and PCLinuxOS which I have yet to try out. If you are giving one of these distros a shot, use UNetbootin so that you can have these Linux distro to work from your USB flash drive :)
Have fun!
| |  Read or post comment (2 Otaku comments)  | Lain
(USA)
Posted December 2nd, 2008 2:58 pm (Tue) | Hey there. I found your bog while searching up info on Hatsune Miku. Your blog is so well thought and well designed. If you need any help with linux I can be there to help you. I work with linux and have a lot of experience.
GIMP is weird. I agree. You can install Photoshop CS2 though, which is what I did. You have to use Wine to provide the correct drivers for it to install and function. If you need help you can contact me and I can help you.
Here's my AIM: ma573rk
|  | Divine Fang
(Kuala Lumpur, MY)
Posted December 3rd, 2008 3:25 am (Wed) | @ Lain,
Hi! Thanks for your compliment ^^! I read a few entries at your blog and WOW, you have got a job at Microsoft because you are a pro in Linux! But then you are an anti-Micro$oft LOL!
I'm still exploring Fedora and haven't got into installing Windows programs on it yet but will definitely get Photoshop up with Wine, arigatou!And thanks for offering your expertise too, I'll get in touch with you if I couldn't figure things out :)
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